Mexico City, sentence 20
From Wikipedia, «Mexico City», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.
These reforms granted the city greater autonomy and changed aspects of its government and political structure, though a constitutional clause still prevents it from becoming a state while it remains Mexico's capital.
Who acts: reforms, constitutional clause, clause · What happens: grant, change, prevent, become, remain · To what, where: city, aspects, structure, state, capital
This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Mexico City». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reforms, constitutional clause, clause), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 reforms | det |
| 2 | reforms | reform | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 granted | nsubj |
| 3 | granted | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 city | det |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 granted | obj |
| 6 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 autonomy | amod |
| 7 | autonomy | autonomy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 city | conj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 changed | cc |
| 9 | changed | change | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 granted | conj |
| 10 | aspects | aspect | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 changed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 government | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 government | nmod:poss |
| 13 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 aspects | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 structure | cc |
| 15 | political | political | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 structure | amod |
| 16 | structure | structure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 government | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 prevents | punct |
| 18 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 23 prevents | mark |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 clause | det |
| 20 | constitutional | constitutional | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 clause | amod |
| 21 | clause | clause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 prevents | nsubj |
| 22 | still | still | ADV | _ | 23 prevents | advmod |
| 23 | prevents | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 granted | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 prevents | obj |
| 25 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 26 becoming | mark |
| 26 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 prevents | advcl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 state | det |
| 28 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 becoming | xcomp |
| 29 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 31 remains | mark |
| 30 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 remains | nsubj |
| 31 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 becoming | advcl |
| 32 | Mexico | Mexico | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 capital | nmod:poss |
| 33 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 32 Mexico | case |
| 34 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 remains | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 granted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past | this reforms | the city and greater autonomy | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent city=Theme | ||||
| 2 | change | past | this reforms not said here | aspects of autonomy's government and political structure | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aspect=Patient | ||||
| 3 | prevent | present | a constitutional clause | structure | still | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer it=Theme | |||
| 4 | become | gerund | a constitutional clause not said here | a state | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | remain | present | clause | Mexico's capital | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme capital=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
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